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This is also one of the reasons I refuse to use Reddit’s mobile site, and instead choose to zoom and pan the desktop site on my phone. I’d imagine mobile is more profitable, seeing as users cannot use an ad-blocker within the native apps.

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It helps the reddit desktop site is 3x faster than the mobile site/app on mobile.

I love how they show a pop-up every single time you use the mobile web site, listing things the app can do, and every one is something I don’t want.

If you go to a nsfw subreddit first, you can switch to desktop without the popup (on the 18+ page) and then browse the rest at leisure.

i turned it off. google indicates it was in the hamburger menu in the top right on the mobile site, but i dont have the option to turn it on/off now, not sure if its because i turned it off already.

Wow, I didn't believe you, and had to try it myself. You are totally right. Checking the "Request desktop site" checkbox, reddit loads a lot faster on my phone. That is really sad.

I never downloaded the reddit mobile app, and have always just stuck with mobile web whenever I wanted to browse it. But now I'll be sure to just request desktop site.

Worth trying out the third party reddit apps, like Alien Blue (before it was acquired by Reddit and ruined).

They should make a PWA version. Although i akready add the site icon to my home screen. Opens in chrome. But an optimized PWA would be nice. I read a WIRED story about a redesign, hope it doesn't slow it more.

You can actually block in-app advertising on Android with apps that block DNS servers. These apps aren't on Google Play because they violate the TOS, so you'll find them with all of the wonderful open source Android apps that violate Google Play's TOS in the F-droid repository. DNS66 (Block ads/hosts via DNS) - https://f-droid.org/app/org.jak_linux.dns66

i.reddit.com is still up, probably more lightweight, ad-free, and better UX than the desktop site on mobile. Worth giving it a shot if you haven't yet.

Auto playing videos is the worst thing. I don’t play videos because my data plan and Reddit seems to auto play on the detail page of a post.

About ready to give that one up for good.

You can on Android.

http://blokada.org/

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